Enzymes of glucose metabolism in normal mouse pancreatic islets
- 1 August 1970
- journal article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 119 (1), 5-15
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1190005
Abstract
1. Glucose-phosphorylating and glucose 6-phosphatase activities, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, NADP+-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase, `malic' enzyme and pyruvate carboxylase were assayed in homogenates of normal mouse islets. 2. Two glucose-phosphorylating activities were detected; the major activity had Km 0.075mm for glucose and was inhibited by glucose 6-phosphate (non-competitive with glucose) and mannoheptulose (competitive with glucose). The other (minor) activity had a high Km for glucose (mean value 16mm) and was apparently not inhibited by glucose 6-phosphate. 3. Glucose 6-phosphatase activity was present in amounts comparable with the total glucose-phosphorylating activity, with Km 1mm for glucose 6-phosphate. Glucose was an inhibitor and the inhibition showed mixed kinetics. No inhibition of glucose 6-phosphate hydrolysis was observed with mannose, citrate or tolbutamide. The inhibition by glucose was not reversed by mannoheptulose. 4. 6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase had Km values of 2.5 and 21μm for NADP+ and 6-phosphogluconate respectively. 5. Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase had Km values of 4 and 22μm for NADP+ and glucose 6-phosphate. The Km for glucose 6-phosphate was considerably below the intra-islet concentration of glucose 6-phosphate at physiological extracellular glucose concentrations. The enzyme had no apparent requirement for cations. Of a number of possible modifiers of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, only NADPH was inhibitory. The inhibition by NADPH was competitive with NADP+ and apparently mixed with respect to glucose 6-phosphate. 6. NADP+–isocitrate dehydrogenase was present but the islet homogenate contained little, if any, `malic' enzyme. The presence of pyruvate carboxylase was also demonstrated. 7. The results obtained are discussed with reference to glucose phosphorylation and glucose 6-phosphate oxidation in the intact mouse islet, and the possible nature of the β-cell glucoreceptor mechanism.Keywords
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